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PS 81 · BUFFALO, NY
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NYS Assessments + Regents, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4).
English Language Arts
32.0%
State avg 58.3%
District avg 33.3%
County avg 51.1%
+4.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
N/A
State avg 57.4%
District avg 27.2%
County avg 51.4%
Science
N/A
State avg 57.3%
District avg 25.0%
County avg 61.1%

What this means: On the NYS Assessments + Regents, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The New York average is about 58 of 100. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 342.0%54.7%5533.0%60.2%55N/AN/AN/A
Grade 440.0%54.6%4534.0%59.3%47N/AN/AN/A
Grade 513.0%57.2%6711.0%54.7%6214.0%45.5%72
Grade 627.0%51.6%4945.0%51.9%51N/AN/AN/A
Grade 732.0%51.8%3425.0%57.5%32N/AN/AN/A
Grade 847.0%53.3%3839.0%47.9%3845.0%44.5%42

2-year history

All grades, all students. PS 81   New York avg

English Language Arts

53282023-2458322024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2532.0%33.3%51.1%58.3%
SY 2023-2428.0%32.2%46.7%53.2%

Mathematics

56302023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-25N/A27.2%51.4%57.4%
SY 2023-2430.0%27.1%50.5%56.5%

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How to read these scores

What is NYS Assessments + Regents?
New York public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take annual state assessments in English Language Arts and Math each spring, plus Science at grades 5 and 8. High school students take Regents Examinations in core subjects (ELA, Algebra I, Living Environment, etc.) which are required for a Regents diploma.
What does "% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at Level 3 ("Proficient") or Level 4 ("Excels at Standards") on the 3-8 test, or at the passing threshold (65 or above) on a Regents Examination. New York reports four performance levels for grades 3-8; Levels 3 and 4 indicate grade-level proficiency. A higher number is better.
What does 32.0% mean for English Language Arts at PS 81?
It means about 32.0 percent of students tested at PS 81 performed at grade level or above on the NYS Assessments + Regents English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for New York that year was 58.3%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in New York, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
New York State Education Department (NYSED), Grades 3-8 ELA/Math/Science assessments + Regents Examinations, via the NYSED School Report Card database (data.nysed.gov). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient" rate (Level 3 + Level 4 for 3-8; passing Regents score for HS).
How often is it updated?
NYS Assessments + Regents is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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